Her first novel, Dance with a Poor Manitoba"s Daughter, won the 1998 Commonwealth Writers" Prize, best first book, Africa, and the Sanlam Prize for Fiction.
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.